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Never eat these TOXIC protein bars or energy bars

Let's face it... most protein bars or "energy" bars are TERRIBLE for your health while pretending to be healthy.

First, most protein bars are nothing more than glorified candy bars.

In
most stores, I find it almost IMPOSSIBLE to find a truly healthy bar to
buy for snacks for road trips, flights, hiking excursions, or just to
have quick mid day snacks available for work days.

Here are 3 major issues I see with MOST bars:

1.
Most bars have WAY too much sugar and total carbs and not enough
protein or fiber. These ratios of protein, sugar, and fiber is the
first thing I search for when looking at labels, and almost EVERY bar I
see at most stores is totally out of whack and a blood sugar nightmare
waiting to happen.

This is where most bars actually make you
hungrier in the hours after you eat them, and cause weight gain from
hormonal and blood sugar disruptions too.

Unfortunately, most bars that attempt to be lower in sugar use dangerous artificial sweeteners instead.

2.
It's almost impossible to find protein bars that don't use soy protein
as the main protein source. Soy protein is horrendous for your health,
and something I try to avoid, but most bars contain it because it's the
cheapest protein source available. Remember that most soy protein also
originated from genetically modified soy, which some animal studies are
showing causes extreme digestive system inflammation and possible
tumors.

3. Most bars don't contain enough
healthy fats... they either try to be too low-fat overall (making them
not satisfying for your appetite), or the fats that they do contain are
highly processed omega-6 fats or even trans fats in some cases that I've
seen.

While most bars are positioned as “healthy,” these fat
loss–and health-derailing nightmares are full of simple sugars, damaged
and denatured fats, dirt-cheap and unhealthy protein, and usually a slew
of artificial colors, dangerous sweeteners, and preservatives.

Just
take a look at the labels on these supposed “health bars” and you’ll
likely see ingredients like partially hydrogenated oils (trans fats),
safflower oil or other inflammatory omega-6 oils, corn syrup, corn
starch, high fructose corn syrup (from GM corn), sugar, brown sugar,
fructose (even worse than sugar for your blood chemistry), maltodextrin
and dextrose (carbohydrates whose glycemic index is even higher than
sugar!), canola oil (and you might know that canola oil is terrible for you), sucralose and aspartame (which are chemical, artificial sweeteners, possibly linked to cancer and sucralose is shown to damage your gut flora), and the list goes on and on.

In
reality, these “obesity additives” are some of the worst things you can
put in your body if your goal is to achieve a flat belly and improve
your health. Not only can they wreak havoc on your blood sugar,
hormones, and cardiovascular risk factors, but they can outright STOP
fat loss dead in its tracks, leaving you wondering why, despite all your
efforts to eat healthy, your body fat stores just won’t seem to budge.

This brings us to another very important point to consider when choosing a protein bar: protein quality.

You see, the #1 protein source used in most protein bars is soy protein, one of the cheapest protein sources in the world.

Do
you think that’s a coincidence? Not a chance! Unfortunately, soy
protein contains BOTH phytoestrogens and xenoestrogens that act like
estrogen in the body and have been linked to numerous health problems,
including decreased thyroid output in women and decreased testosterone
levels in men.

This is really bad news, because less thyroid
hormone means less calorie burning and more fat storage for you. And
low testosterone for men can make it impossible to build any strength or
muscle and lose any fat, among other major problems that Low T causes
for men.

That’s more fiber than a FiberOne® bar, which has barely any protein at all and has too much sugar.

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While being made up of a very short list of
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In
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What about the sweeteners used?

These
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honey for the sweetener, which is perfect in my opinion.

With
this mixture, these bars are lower in sugar than most bars, but the
sugar that they do contain is derived from healthy organic honey which
contains unique antioxidants not found in other sugar sources. And
combined with the massive 14 grams of fiber and 20 grams of protein, you
end up with a snack or small meal that's very low in glycemic response
helping to keep your blood sugar balanced.

This means you REDUCE your cravings and keep a fat-burning environment humming along inside your body!

The
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quick meal alternative for on-the-go.

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